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Coats of many colours.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:37 am
by Murray
I had a family of pigeons, mostly Jansen x Van Loon sort of things. They were either blue chequer or blue bars. There were also a few dark chequers of the Van Wanrooy X Van de Wegens.
Now I have a " new look".
I have a lot of Jos Thone' pigeons which are throwing all sorts of colours.
These are some of the second round of babies. They are like liquorice allsorts.
Re: Coats of many colours.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:39 am
by Murray
But, in the background, there are some sprinting things which are throwing perfect blues...
Re: Coats of many colours.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:55 am
by Andy
Looking great Murray.
Re: Coats of many colours.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 10:17 am
by George and Morgan
great birds Murray in a very clean loft
Re: Coats of many colours.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:41 pm
by Buster121
Real beauts there Murray, love the mealy and red along with the grizzles, are the 3 pied in middle all related
Re: Coats of many colours.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:23 pm
by Murray
Yep the pieds and the little dark one are out of the same pair.
Re: Coats of many colours.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:55 pm
by Buster121
Murray wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:23 pm
Yep the pieds and the little dark one are out of the same pair.
Re: Coats of many colours.
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 10:34 pm
by Trev
Very nice Muzza, I particularly like the Blue Chequer top right and Dark Checker bottom right. I have to say it doesn't matter how I breed and how many colours I have during the year I still seem to end up with primarily Blues/blue chequers by the end of the year.
Re: Coats of many colours.
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 11:30 pm
by Murray
Yes ,Trev, that's the problem with these pretty coloured ones. They are first targets for the hawks. I don't expect to have all of them for very long.
Yet the raptor enthusiasts still insist the falcons are endangered. There was a picture of a city falcon and brood of youngsters on a ledge in a newspaper recently. The falconist told the idiot reporter that they are 'rare', and the journalist dutifully wrote that.
Rare? There are thousands of them.
Re: Coats of many colours.
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2022 5:53 am
by Buster121
Murray wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 11:30 pm
Yes ,Trev, that's the problem with these pretty coloured ones. They are first targets for the hawks. I don't expect to have all of them for very long.
Yet the raptor enthusiasts still insist the falcons are endangered. There was a picture of a city falcon and brood of youngsters on a ledge in a newspaper recently. The falconist told the idiot reporter that they are 'rare', and the journalist dutifully wrote that.
Rare? There are thousands of them.
I see bird flu is killing them in the UK been couple reports on last few days, pity the buggers around here don't catch it